THE DANGERS OF NEW AGE NARCISSISM (*) Kate Thomas I am rather tired of observing nominally spiritual communities. For over thirty years, I have noticed repeatedly that such organisations do not live up to their professed ideals. However, the situation is far worse now than it was in the 1950’s, and it was very far… Read More
Categoria: Vegetarianism: its Importance
Anna Kingsford, Buddhist Christianity and Vegetarianism
(Arnaldo Sisson Filho interviewed by journalist Viviane Pereira, May/2009) Presentation by Viviane Pereira: Raised in a Catholic family, Arnaldo Sisson Filho began his search for answers to the questions that guide our existence early on. He studied in Roman Catholic schools and, in his late teens, questioning everything he had learned so far, he became… Read More
Buddhist Christianity Is the Ancient Religion that the Gospel of Interpretation Came to Rescue
Buddhist Christianity, in particular, and the Gospel of Interpretation in general, are believed to be the fulfillment, at least to some extent, of the ancient prophecy of withered bones regaining flesh, nerve, blood, and life. The Dry Bones Live “The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit… Read More
Christ Jesus Within Us; “Blood” of God; Vicarious Salvation; Importance of God’s Image
“But it is the Christ Jesus, or man reborn of a pure soul and spirit, as Jesus Himself declared that all must be born – even precisely as He is dramatically described as having been born – within ourselves, to whom we look for salvation. And the means are His cross of self-sacrifice, renunciation, and… Read More
Treasure of the Egyptians; Falsehood of Vicarious Salvation; the Heavenly Jerusalem; Bloodshed
“According to the true gospel, as declared by the prophets, the substance of humanity is not material and created, but spiritual and divine. And man rises out of his lower into his higher nature by subordinating the former to the latter, and so rising wholly into that higher, becoming thereby divine – for between Spirit… Read More
Vegetarianism and the Bible — Text
(p. 214) VEGETARIANISM AND THE BIBLE (*) (Edward Maitland) THERE are very many persons for whom the arguments scientific, social, economical, and even moral, in favour of a vegetable diet, do not suffice, but who require in addition the sanction of the Bible. As we are prepared to meet inquirers at this point also, I… Read More
Mystical Sense, and Not the Literal Sense
“Such was the first intimation (…) given us of the truth subsequently revealed in plenitude, – the presence in Scripture of a mystical sense concealed within the apparent sense, as a kernel in its shell, which, and not the literal sense, is the intended sense.” (Edward Maitland. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland… Read More
The “Woman” Is Not a “Woman”, But the Soul, and the Intuition
“It is the inveterate enmity of the occult powers of evil to the mystic “Woman” of Scripture that is implied in the Apocalyptic presentation of the dragon, “when knowing he has but a short time,” as “casting out of his mouth water as a flood to carry her away.” The imminence of the restoration of… Read More
“Adam,” “Eve,” “Christ,” “Mary” and the Rest – Denote the Various Spiritual Elements Constituting the Individual and His States
“The subject of her second lecture (…) was the second clause of the Creed: “And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who is conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary.” Concerning this clause, she said that in insisting upon the esoteric signification as alone true and of value, we are… Read More
The Bible Insists on the Esoteric Sense
“But, first, to vindicate from Scripture itself the assertion of the presence in it of an esoteric sense on which Scripture insists as its true and divinely-intended sense. That such vindication should at all be necessary is in itself proof positive not merely of the inadequacy, but of the unfairness of the manner in which… Read More